Invisible

"Martin Bulmer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I became invisible today, briefly. If I can remember how, I could make a
fortune.

I've been invisible too, but not to anything like your degree. Assuming you
survive uninjured the upshot is that at least one of the drivers would end
up wondering how their vehicle got damaged. Imagine the wording on the
insurance claim....

Disclaimer: The author of this post in no way condones illegal and/or
immoral acts by visible people. (Definition of visibilty in this case
meaning being within the sight range of someone whose eyesight is deemed
adequate to drive on public highways).

--
Pete
http:[email hidden]/P

Peter B said:

I've been invisible too, but not to anything like your degree. Assuming you
survive uninjured the upshot is that at least one of the drivers would end
up wondering how their vehicle got damaged. Imagine the wording on the
insurance claim....

I'm sure Peter Cottrell can help with the wording*

--
Tony

* http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4313764.stm

"I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
Anon

Tony Raven said:

Quoted message said:

I'm sure Peter Cottrell can help with the wording*

--
Tony

* http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4313764.stm

Cleared of manslaughter...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/4330950.stm

Bar steward for not stopping IMO. Complete oxygen thief.

LSMike said:

Tony Raven said:

I'm sure Peter Cottrell can help with the wording*

--
Tony

* http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4313764.stm

Cleared of manslaughter...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/4330950.stm

Bar steward for not stopping IMO. Complete oxygen thief.

I see from this morning's newspapers that you get fined more for driving
through a puddle than through a cyclist:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/tm_objectid=16313596%26method=full%26siteid=94762-name_page.html

"A MOTORIST was fined for splashing two workmen as he drove through a
puddle at 15mph.
IT consultant Jason Evans, 34, was tailed by police for two miles before
being booked.
He said yesterday after being hit with a £150 penalty and three points
on his licence: "It's unbelievable this ever came to court.
"It was an accident. I was only in second gear. I couldn't have done
anything different unless I'd pushed the car through the puddle.
"I didn't even notice what I'd done until I saw a man in my mirror
raising his fist. I wanted to stop but was intimidated by the police car
behind me."
The workmen were clearing leaves from a ditch in Charlton Mackrell,
Somerset, when Evans splashed past.
Prosecutor Iyan Stephens told Yeovil magistrates: "The water was about
two inches deep. Evans drove through at such speed one of the workmen's
jeans was soaked."
The incident was seen by a police patrol officer. Evans, of Yeovil - who
said he drove 40,000 miles a year and had a clean licence - admitted
inconsiderate driving.
Police said: "All motorists have a duty to show consideration for other
road users and pedestrians.""

--
Tony

"I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
Anon

Tony Raven said:

Police said: "All motorists have a duty to show consideration for other
road users and pedestrians.""

Wow. That's worth making into a T-shirt! Does the same apply to the
dibblers one wonders?

Jon

"Martin Bulmer" <[email hidden]>typed

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I became invisible today, briefly.

Meanwhile, back in uk.people.disability, there's a thread named 'The Art
of Invisibility' (to which I have contributed).

Methinks inequality causes invisibility; bicycles are invisible to
motorists, wheelchairs and mobility scooters are invisible to
able-bodied pedestrians.

I don't suppose minorities can have equal rights without equal visibility.

I really ought to wave that walking stick about a little more; I might
get seen...

--
Helen D. Vecht: [email hidden]
Edgware.

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Police said: "All motorists have a duty to show consideration for other
road users and pedestrians.""

Wow. That's worth making into a T-shirt! Does the same apply to the
dibblers one wonders?

The dibblers were certainly showing consideration to *these* road users:

http://www.expressandstar.com/articles/news/es/article_82160.php

--
Mark, UK

"There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied
exemption from all prejudice."

"Helen Deborah Vecht" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Martin Bulmer" <[email hidden]>typed

Quoted message said:

I became invisible today, briefly.

Meanwhile, back in uk.people.disability, there's a thread named 'The Art
of Invisibility' (to which I have contributed).

Methinks inequality causes invisibility; bicycles are invisible to
motorists, wheelchairs and mobility scooters are invisible to
able-bodied pedestrians.

I don't suppose minorities can have equal rights without equal visibility.

I really ought to wave that walking stick about a little more; I might
get seen...

Related to

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,1390742,00.html

?

(An article on how fluorescent clothes make one invisible, probaly mentioned
here when it was originally published)

cheers,
clive

Tony Raven said:

I see from this morning's newspapers that you get fined more for driving
through a puddle than through a cyclist:

An "IT consultant". Probably some vulgar oik who came through
comprehensive school, and isn't even in the golf club, let alone
the Lodge. Why can't these oiks be content with a job mending
the road, or driving a white van? Almost as bad as a cyclist!

--
not me guv

Helen Deborah Vecht said:

Methinks inequality causes invisibility; bicycles are invisible to
motorists, wheelchairs and mobility scooters are invisible to
able-bodied pedestrians.

Do you as the 'disabled community' have effective ways of fighting
(blatently illegal) parking that blocks a pavement and forces you
down a nasty kerb and into a potentially-dangerous road? It's so
bad here that more often than not I can't even walk down the
pavement without going out into the road, and any wheelchair user,
or even a frailer person walking unsteadily/with a stick in this road
might feel unable to go out at all. The police don't seem interested.

--
Nick Kew

Nick Kew <[email hidden]>typed

Quoted message said:

Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Methinks inequality causes invisibility; bicycles are invisible to
motorists, wheelchairs and mobility scooters are invisible to
able-bodied pedestrians.

Quoted message said:

Do you as the 'disabled community' have effective ways of fighting
(blatently illegal) parking that blocks a pavement and forces you
down a nasty kerb and into a potentially-dangerous road? It's so
bad here that more often than not I can't even walk down the
pavement without going out into the road, and any wheelchair user,
or even a frailer person walking unsteadily/with a stick in this road
might feel unable to go out at all. The police don't seem interested.

I haven't seen any police interest either. I can get out of my
wheelchair and walk a bit if things come to a crunch.

Sometimes I can't control my arms and mirrors of obstructive parkers'
cars get in the way...

--
Helen D. Vecht: [email hidden]
Edgware.

Nick Kew said:

Helen Deborah Vecht said:

Methinks inequality causes invisibility; bicycles are invisible to
motorists, wheelchairs and mobility scooters are invisible to
able-bodied pedestrians.

Do you as the 'disabled community' have effective ways of fighting
(blatently illegal) parking that blocks a pavement and forces you
down a nasty kerb and into a potentially-dangerous road? It's so
bad here that more often than not I can't even walk down the
pavement without going out into the road, and any wheelchair user,
or even a frailer person walking unsteadily/with a stick in this road
might feel unable to go out at all. The police don't seem interested.

I would like to know any answers as well, my youngest son has a
wheelchair a few times we have had to go on to the road rather than use
the pavement (usually [but not exclusively] because of bins placed on
the pavements rather than cars parked badly) and I have often thought
"do I just have to put up with this or is there someone I could actually
inform". As yet this is not a major problem as wife and I are fit and
nimble but this will not always be the case.
--
This post contains no hidden meanings, no implications and certainly no
hidden agendas so it should be taken at face value. The wrong words
may be used this is due to my limitations with the English language .

Nick Kew said:

Helen Deborah Vecht said:

Methinks inequality causes invisibility; bicycles are invisible to
motorists, wheelchairs and mobility scooters are invisible to
able-bodied pedestrians.

Do you as the 'disabled community' have effective ways of fighting
(blatently illegal) parking that blocks a pavement and forces you
down a nasty kerb and into a potentially-dangerous road? It's so
bad here that more often than not I can't even walk down the
pavement without going out into the road, and any wheelchair user,
or even a frailer person walking unsteadily/with a stick in this road
might feel unable to go out at all. The police don't seem interested.

They get very interested if your stick/chair scratches the vehicles
paint though!

Badger said:

They get very interested if your stick/chair scratches the vehicles
paint though!

Similarly, they get quite interested if one happens to squeeze through the
tiny gaps they leave; causing one to break, bend or dislodge a wing mirror
in the process.

Pushchair handles are particularly prone to causing damage.

I've observed.

Helen Deborah Vecht said:

"Martin Bulmer" <[email hidden]>typed

Quoted message said:

I became invisible today, briefly.

Meanwhile, back in uk.people.disability, there's a thread named 'The Art
of Invisibility' (to which I have contributed).

Methinks inequality causes invisibility; bicycles are invisible to
motorists, wheelchairs and mobility scooters are invisible to
able-bodied pedestrians.

I don't suppose minorities can have equal rights without equal visibility.

I really ought to wave that walking stick about a little more; I might
get seen...

Is that why the stupid bovine of the female sex pulled out accross the
road forcing me to perform an emergency stop, how the hell could she see
I'm disabled I'm not sure, nor how she thought pulling out in front of
a two ton land-rover was sensible....

Quoted message said:

Is that why the stupid bovine of the female sex pulled out accross the
road forcing me to perform an emergency stop, how the hell could she
see I'm disabled I'm not sure, nor how she thought pulling out in front
of a two ton land-rover was sensible....

S'alright. I was driving a large 15 seater minibus the other week. It was
huge, white, and stopped and the traffic lights in neutral with the
handbrake on.

Some silly sod still managed to hit me.

Mark Thompson said:

Quoted message said:

Is that why the stupid bovine of the female sex pulled out accross the
road forcing me to perform an emergency stop, how the hell could she
see I'm disabled I'm not sure, nor how she thought pulling out in front
of a two ton land-rover was sensible....

S'alright. I was driving a large 15 seater minibus the other week. It was
huge, white, and stopped and the traffic lights in neutral with the
handbrake on.

Some silly sod still managed to hit me.

I've driven an invisible transit before. Had someone roll backwards
about 10m and hit me despite tooting on the horn.

...d

"Peter B" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I've been invisible too, but not to anything like your degree. Assuming

you

Quoted message said:

survive uninjured the upshot is that at least one of the drivers would end
up wondering how their vehicle got damaged. Imagine the wording on the
insurance claim....

"Dear Son Of Pond Life Insurance,

I was making a right turn on a clear stretch of road, (for some inexplicable
reason the RDS cut in with a torrent of obscene language, someone calling
someone else a blind c*nt or something, very strange), anyway I digress,
when I heard a loud thump to the cars body.
After negotiating the corner I pulled over to investigate and noticed a dent
in the the near-side door and the door mirror missing. Although I've never
understood the function of the mirror I always liked the way it was colour
coded and sort of matched the vehicle so was a little upset by its loss.
I couldn't see it laying around so I bent over to look under the vehicle to
see if it were there, but alas not. The bending induced a sharp pain in my
backside so I hastened home thinking my bowels were in need of imminent
release.
Now this sounds very strange and I'm sorry to be indelicate but after
relieveing myself (very painful too I must add) I noticed the missing mirror
in the pan!

Please find enclosed inflated quotation from Arfers Bodyworks for the
sterilisation and refitting of the mirror and the repair of the dent.
(Arfer says it's normal practice to inflate the price for insurance jobs as
you'll try to weasel out of paying anyway).

Yours optomistically,
Ike Arntsee

Mark Thompson said:

S'alright. I was driving a large 15 seater minibus the other week. It was
huge, white, and stopped and the traffic lights in neutral with the
handbrake on.

Some silly sod still managed to hit me.

Gravitational attraction, natch.

R.